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Hosts: Marcus Bell & Nora Chen In this episode: • Today we're covering the IMF's new systemic risk warning on AI cyberattacks, Rocket Companies' AI-driven earnings beat, and a breakthrough in financia... • Starting with the big one—the IMF just elevated AI-powered cyberattacks to systemic risk status, specifically calling out frontier models like Claude ... • Yeah, and what's striking is they'...

Hosts: Marcus Bell & Nora Chen In this episode: • Welcome to Pivot Finance for Sunday, May 10th, 2026. I'm Marcus Bell. • And I'm Nora Chen. This morning: Block leans hard into AI-driven lending, Rocket posts its best quarter in four years, and a new research framework ta... • Let's start with Block. Their Q1 was the first earnings print after the restructuring Jack Dorsey announced earlier th...

Hosts: Marcus Bell & Nora Chen In this episode: • Welcome to Pivot Finance for Wednesday, May 13th, 2026. I'm Marcus Bell. • And I'm Nora Chen. This morning we're focused on a theme that's been quietly building for months: what happens when AI agents touch the money. We've g... • Let's start with the story lighting up finance Slack channels. A Reddit confession went viral over the weekend from...

Hosts: Marcus Bell & Nora Chen In this episode: • Today we're breaking down Block's radical AI restructuring that's turning Cash App into a lending machine, Digits pushing AI directly into accrual acc... • Alright, let's start with Block's Q1 earnings call yesterday. Jack Dorsey just unveiled the most aggressive AI transformation I've seen from a fintech... • Yeah, and this isn't just adding s...

Hosts: Marcus Bell & Nora Chen In this episode: • Today we're diving into the corporate card disaster that's got Reddit buzzing, AI's bottom-up insurgency in finance departments, and a new framework c... • Marcus, let's start with this Reddit confession that's been making rounds. Someone gave their AI agent unrestricted access to a corporate card, and th... • Yeah, this is wild. The poster des...

Hosts: Marcus Bell & Nora Chen In this episode: • Welcome to Pivot Finance for Monday, May 11th, 2026. I'm Marcus Bell. • And I'm Nora Chen. If you run a close, a forecast, or a payables shop, today's stories hit your Q3 budget directly. Let's get into it. • Top of the show: Workday rolled out its 'Autonomous Close' module to general availability this morning, three months ahead of schedule. P...

Hosts: Marcus Bell & Nora Chen In this episode: • Good morning, this is Pivot Finance for Thursday, May 7, 2026. I'm Marcus Bell. • And I'm Nora Chen. Three stories today that touch your treasury stack, your reporting calendar, and your ERP roadmap. Let's start in London. • The UK Financial Conduct Authority has opened a formal investigation into PayPal, Visa, and Mastercard over how PayPal's...